SurfLand by Joni Sternbach

After the first excitment about digital photography more and more people, professionals and amateurs, discovered or re-discovered their passion for analogic and old processes, just like Joni Sternbach, who uses a medium format camera and 19th century’s techniques, such as wet plate Collodion process ( tintype, ambrotrype, negative) as a valid contemporary tool, to create this stunning series of portraits of surfers.

Joni says: “the act of making the photograph on location is something that involves my subjects as well as myself. So when I am out there taking the picture and processing it and then fixing it in daylight, my subjects are watching as I am doing this and they are just as excited and thrilled by the result as I am. It’s live performances: art in public”. In the “SurfLand” series, she using a 20th century camera and 20th century lens. She has opted out of using antique brass lenses without a shutter.

> Collodion process

> Tintype

> jonisternbach.com

SurfLand by Joni Sternbach

SurfLand by Joni Sternbach

SurfLand by Joni Sternbach

SurfLand by Joni Sternbach

SurfLand by Joni Sternbach

SurfLand by Joni Sternbach

SurfLand by Joni Sternbach

SurfLand by Joni Sternbach

SurfLand by Joni Sternbach

SurfLand by Joni Sternbach

SurfLand by Joni Sternbach

SurfLand by Joni Sternbach

SurfLand by Joni Sternbach

SurfLand by Joni Sternbach

Collodion photography explained by Will Dunniway

SurfLand by Joni Sternbach
SurfLand by Joni Sternbach

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